Husker and shredder.



No. 778,530. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. A. E. SHEASLBY.

HUSKER, ANDSHRBDDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.11, 1904.

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AQH. SHEASLBY.

HUSKBR AND SHRBDDER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1904.

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A. E. SHEASLEY.

HUSKER AND SHREDDBR.

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UNITED STATES Patented octberaa 1904.

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HUSKER AND SHREDDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,530, dated October25, 1904.

Application iled February 11, 1904. Serial No. 193,132. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ARLINGTON E. SHEAsLEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong, State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHuskers and Shredders; and 1 do hereby declare the Afollowing to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

The invention relates to corn-husking and fodder-cutting machines, andhas for its object to provide a device of this nature which will removethe ears from the stalks, husk the ears, cut and shred the stalks, andwhich will deliver both husks and shredded stalks into a silo.

A further object is to provide a mechanism which will separate loosegrains from the cut fodder or ensilage to prevent souring of the massthrough fermentation of the grains.

' In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the machine, showing the workingparts in elevation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the working parts. Fig.3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of thecomplete machine. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a portion of the machine.

Referring now to the drawings, the present invention comprises a bodyportion 5, including ends 6 and 7, sides 8 and 9, and top and bottom,the body being mounted on wheels, as shown. At its rearward end the tophas an opening 10 therethrough, and directly therebelow there isdisposed a conveyer 11, mounted upon transverse rollers 12 and 13,journaled in the sides of the body. The roller 13 is disposed below andforwardly of the roller 12, so that the conveyer slants downwardly andforwardly into the machine. Transversely of the body and disposedforwardly of the roller 13 and spaced therefrom are a pair ofinterineshing star-shaped snapping-rollers 14 and 15, the roller 15 ofwhich is disposed with its trunnions 16 in slots 17 in the sides 8 and 9of the body, and the trunnions are held normally at the lowerextremities of the slots by helical springs 18, disposed betweenbearing-blocks 19, which rest upon the trunnions and the upper ends ofthe slots.

Forwardly of the snapping-rollers there is journaled transversely of thebody a shredding-roller 20, which has a plurality of knives 2l arrangedupon its face. This roller is spaced slightly from the snapping-rollers,and below the space there lies the upper end of a downwardly andforwardly inclined plane 22. A similar inclined plane 23 is disposedwith its upper end below the rollers 14 and 15 and extends rearwardlythereof. Below the lower end 24 of the plane 23 are the ends of aplurality of rollers 25, disposed longitudinally of the body and whichextend downwardly and rearwardly therein, the lower ends 26 extendingoutwardly of the casing through an opening 27 in the end 6. As shown,these rollers have intermeshing gears 26 at their ends and are connectedby a bevel-gear 26 to a transverse power-shaft 26h;

At the lower rearward corner of the body below the outwardly-extendingends 26 of the rollers there is journaled atransverse roller 28, thetrunnions 29 of which extend through openings 30 in the sides 8 and 9,these openings acting as bearings therefor. To the outer ends of thetrunnions 29 are pivoted braces 31, which carry at their free ends aroller 32. This roller, with the roller 28, carries a lconveyer 33, andby reason of the pivotal connection of the braces 31 and the trunnions29 the roller 32 may be moved in an arc to lie against the end 6 or toproject at an angle therefrom. The free ends of the braces are providedwith hooks 33 for engagement with the sides ofa wagon. Adjacent to theend 6 there is journaled transversely of the body a roller 34, whichsupports one end of an upwardly and forwardly extending conveyer 35, theother end of which is supported by a roller 36, which lies below thelower end of the inclined plane 22.

Arranged above the rollers 25 are a .pair of shafts 37 and 38, carryingsprockets 39, with which are engaged chains 40 and 41. To'the vouterfaces of the chain 40 are attached a plurality of yokes 42, which alinewith simiroo i lar yokes 43 on the chain 41, and in each alining pair ofyolzes there are disposed plates 44, which are considerably longer thanthe distance between the chains. From the outer faces of the plates 44there extend at an angle thereto a plurality of sharpened pins 45. Thechains and 41 are spaced somewhat from the sides 8 and 9 of the body,and in each of these spaces and parallel to the chains there is mounteda shaft, the shafts being desig nated by the numerals 46 and 46',respectively. Each shaft has a plurality of laterally-extending fingers47, arranged in pairs at opposite points upon the sides thereof, all ofwhich fingers lie in a single plane. The shafts 46 and 46' areconnected, by means of beveled gears 48, to the shaft 38, as shown.

The shaft 20' of the roller 2O extends outwardly of the body and carriesat one end a belt-wheel 49, with which may be engaged a belt from atraction-engine or other source of power. rlhe shaft 20 is alsoconnected, by means of a gear 50, with a gear 51, .carried by one of thetrunnions 16 of the roller 15, the remaining trunnion being connected ina similar manner with the roller 13. The remaining rollers, conveyers,&c., are connected one with another in a similar manner by belts, gears,or in any desired way to move the different portions of the mechanism inthe directions indicated by their respective arrows, (shown on thedrawings,) all of the different portions receiving their power directlyor indirectly from the shredding-roller 20, which is provided with aclutch mechanism 52, by means of which the entire machine may be thrownout of gear.

In operation cornstalls are introduced buttend first into the opening 10and are carried forwardly by the conveyer 11 until their ends areengaged by the rollers 14 and 15, when the stalks will be drawn inwardlytherebetween and crushed by the intermeshing portions of the rollers. Asthe stalks emerge rearwardly of the rollers they are struck by theknives 21 and are chopped into small pieces, which fall upon theinclined plane 22, down which they pass. With the passage of the stalksbetween the rollers 14 and 15 the ears of corn are snapped therefrom andfall upon the plane 23, from which they slide to the rollers 25. Theserollers are provided with a plurality of hooked pins 53, which arearranged in rows longitudinally of the rollers, the rows alternatingcircumferentially of the rollers, as shown. Between each pair of pinsthe surfaces of the rollers are provided with slots 54, and the rollersare so disposed that the pins of one roller register with the slots ofthe adjacent rollers. /Vhen the ears reach the rollers 25, the husks areengaged by the pins 53, which pull them from the ears, after which theyare carried downwardly between the rollers 25 to the conveyer 35. To aidin husking l,the ears, the rollers 37 and 38 and the mechanism carriedthereby are provided. It will be apparent from the drawings that as theears pass alongI the rollers 25 they will be engaged by the pins 45,which will catch in the husks and tend to loosen them. The ar rangementof the shafts 46 and 46/ is such that when they are rotated the fingers47 strike the ends of the plates 44, moving them in the yokes 42 and 43`the lingers of the shaft striking alternate plates, which gives theplates a reciprocating motion, they being engaged first by the 'fingersof one shaft and then by those of the other. This reciprocating motionof the plates acts, in connection with their movement longitudinally ofthe machine, to aid the pins 53 in removing the husks from the ears.After the huslring operation the ears fall from the ends 26 of therollers 25 to the conveyer' 33.

vIt will be understood that any loose grains which may fall from theears will pass between the rollers 25 to the conveyer 35 and will withthe husks be carried to the end of the inclined plane 22. At this pointthe husls mingle with the chopped fodder and are deposited with it upona screening and elevating mechanism 55, which is of peculiarconstruction. This mechanism consists of a plurality of transverseshafts 56, journaled in the sides 8 and 9, which are arranged in anupwardly and forwardly directed line. These shafts are geared togetherto rotate in the direction of the end 7, as indicated by the arrow. Eachshaft carries a number of triangular plates 57, which are spacedslightly from each other, the edges of the plates of one shaft lyingbetween those of the adjacent shafts. The plates carried by thelowermost shaft lie below the end of the conveyer 35 and receive theensilage therefrom. As will be apparent from Fig. 1 of the drawings, theforward rotation of these plates deposits the fodder upon the plates ofthe next shaft, and this operation is repeated until the fodder reachesthe uppermost plates, from which it passes into the chute 58 of a blower59, through which 'it passes to a silo or other receptacle.

It will be seen that the fodder in its passage over the mechanism 55 isthoroughly agitated, so that any loose grains of corn will pass betweenthe plates 57 to a chute 59 therebelow and down this to an opening 60,where they enter a rotary conveyer 61 and are carried to an elevator 62,which empties them from the machine through a chute 62', to which a sackmay be attached. At the lower end of the chute 59 there is a fan 63,which separates any chaff and waste matter that may pass through theplates 57 from the corn.

Arranged transversely of the body and just below the conveyer 35 is arod 64, which has a series of teeth 64 projecting therefrom and lyingbetween the plates 57 of the lowermost shaft to prevent the fodder fromfalling from the rearward edges thereof.

In practice modifications of the specific construction shown may bemade, and any suitable proportions and materials may be used `withoutdeparting from the spirit of the inment of the ears, means for movingthe plates bodily, longitudinally of the husking-rollers, meansforreciprocating the plates transversely of the rollers, a conveyerdisposed to receive the husked ears from the rollers, a conveyerdisposed to receive the husks and loose grains from the rollers, aconveyer disposed for the reception of the husks and grains from theiirst-mentioned conveyer, a'chute disposed for the passage thereover ofthe chopped stalks from the knife-roller to the second-named conveyer,said second-named conveyer comprisa ing a plurality of transverse shaftsarranged in an upwardly-extending diagonal plane, each shaft having aplurality of triangular plates mounted thereon and spaced slightly fromeach other, the plates of one shaft lying between those of the adjacentshafts, the shafts being arranged for movement in the same direction,the plates being arranged to deposit one upon another the husks, choppedstalks and loose grains, and being disposed for the passage of loosegrains therebetween, inwardly-projecting lingers disposed between theplates of the lowermost shaft and extending above said plates to preventfodder from falling therefrom, and a discharge-chute arranged to receivefodder from the uppermost plates.

l 2. In a corn-husking and fodd er-cutting machine, the combination withear-removing, husking and chopping mechanism, of a combined elevator andseparator comprising a plurality of shafts disposed in anupwardly-directed diagonal line, a plurality of triangular platesmounted upon each shaft and spaced slightly from each other, the plates-of one shaft lying between those of the adjacent shafts, said shaftsbeing arranged for movement in the same direction, the plates being'arranged to receive and deposit one upon another, fodder and loosegrains from the chopping and other mechanism, the plates being disposedfor the passage of loose grain theressA between, inwardly-projectingfingers disposed between and projecting above the plates of thelowermost shaft, to prevent the fodder from falling from the plates anda discharge-chute arranged to receive fodder from the uppermost plates.In testimony whereof I afX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARLINGTON E. SHEASLEY. Witnesses:

NIsH D. HEILMAN, ROBERT WATERsoN.

